Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the indelible pigment was used to accentuate everything from ceramics to human ...

Shasta Valley's strange hills reveal a secret — the debris of a massive ancient mountain collapse in Northern California.

It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures is changing the Arctic landscape, threatening ...

The Maya civilization thrived at Tikal and in other cities until it declined after about A.D. 900, for reasons that are much debated. Before that, Teotihuacan had also declined, from about the ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

The Maya civilization emerged circa 2000 BCE, and for centuries they ruled over an extensive territory in Central America.

A new peer-reviewed study warns that the Earth is on a dangerous trajectory toward breaching multiple environmental “tipping points” that could cause long-term and irreversible damage to the planet’s ...

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Victoria TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST Cancellation Of Severe Weather Warning for East Gippsland and North East Forecast Districts. Issued at 12:56 ...

The aesthetic and cultural expressions of dark ecology – found in literature, art, film, and philosophy – reflect a growing unease with climate collapse and the inescapable consequences of human ...

The discovery of an early ninth century burning event marks a turning point in Maya rule, archeologists say. The find is a rare archaeological pinpointing of a historic turning point. Burning Maya ...

At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization ... (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were able to fight the Egyptians ...

revealing the important role played by women in the oldest center of civilization in the Americas. An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women ...